Atmospheric ozone levels encountered by commercial aircraft on transatlantic routes

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bhangar, Seema ^a   Nazaroff, William W ^a  

^a 109 McLaughlin Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

exposure; MOZAIC; transportation; tropopause

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CABINS (AIRCRAFT); CLOUDS; LINEAR REGRESSION; OZONE; TRANSPORTATION;

COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT; EXPOSURE; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; MOZAIC; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL PATTERN; TRANSATLANTIC ROUTES; TROPOPAUSE;

AIRCRAFT;

AMPLITUDE; ANNUAL CYCLE; HEALTH RISK; MOZAIC PROGRAM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; TRANSPORTATION; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876197585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014006     Document Type: Article

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